This small summer house is located in a tiny residential area in the Pyrenees, designed not only to accomplish common conditions for this type of project such as plot site geometry, solar orientation ... but also to satisfy two impositions set forth by the property owners: its materiality, the house had to be made out of wood, and budget. Under these premises, the project is designed as a mountain shelter: a dwelling of a few metres, low technology and built with a limited palette of materials. The plot of land has a long and narrow trapezoidal geometry. It is characterised by having a 20% slope with a 14 metre level difference and the leafiness vegetation where a sequoia stands out at the bottom end and 4 fir trees at the top. In order to confer the idea of a cabin in the forest, the volume is purposely placed on the site to chop down the least number of trees and those of smaller size,in a manner that the construction seems to work around the vegetation.

One chooses to give generous dimensions to the living room and enhance the common area in detriment of the bedrooms, as short stays are foreseen. The small dimension of the house obliges one to take into account spaces that could be of no use in other circumstances. The false ceiling of the corridor is used for storing suitcases and the mezzanine on top of the kitchen is converted into a reading corner. Intending to control the cost of the work, three decisions were taken: that of minimizing land excavation, prefabricating the dwelling and reducing on-site construction auxiliary means. The project was designed to be transported by road in modules under the maximum transport measures, which meant a corset in design process.

The project was split in 3 modules: 1 unit for bedrooms, 1 unit for the living room and kitchen, and a third unit for the roof of the living area and the mezzanine. In order to comply with the budget, transporting the house in panels and assembling them on-site instead of ready-made modules finished in the workshop turned out to be more economic. Another positive aspect of prefabrication, was to be able to advance the construction during the cold season. Structurally, the house is supported by pine wood balloon frames filled with a double layer of rock wool insulation and covered on the outside by a wooden ventilated facade. In pursuance of avoiding an excessively rough result, gutters and window frames with their shutters were detailed as a constructive decorum.